Yahoo News – by Dylan Stableford
The distraught father of one of the University of California, Santa Barbara, shooting victims — who blamed his son’s death on the inability of lawmakers to act in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School — got a special message from a father of one of the Newtown, Conn., victims welcoming him to an unwanted club.
“Dear Richard Martinez,” the letter posted by Mark Barden to the Sandy Hook Promise Facebook page begins. “We have not met, but you are now part of our extended family. It is not a family we chose, but a family born from the horrible circumstance of losing a child to gun violence — one that’s only growing each day.” Continue reading “Sandy Hook dad to UCSB dad: ‘You are now part of our extended family’”